Monthly Archive: February 2016

A French judge has summoned the former chief of Guantánamo Bay, retired U.S. General Geoffrey Miller, to appear in court on March 1 to face allegations of torture against detainees. Miller presided over the...

Newly released documents show that, in back-room talks, European officials assured ExxonMobil that the pending US-EU trade agreement would force the removal of regulatory “obstacles” worldwide, thus opening up even more countries to exploitation...

The EU parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly called for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia over its bombing of Yemen which has “led to thousands of deaths” and “further destabilized” the war-torn country. “This is...

Garoua International Airport,proclaimed the sign on the concrete and glass terminal building. The designation was something of a misnomer, because only three or four planes land each week in this sleepy outpost in northern...

Workers in Alabama’s biggest city were days away from having their minimum wage lifted. And then state lawmakers swiftly crushed Birmingham’s increase—and any other city’s potential effort to do the same. As local news...

SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby recently admitted that the company infiltrated animal rights groups by sending in employees to spy on activists. The employees would pose as activists for the purpose of collecting information and...

In a statement released last month, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide “RoundUp”, is “probably carcinogenic.” The report indicated studies...